Criminal Queerness Festival
National Queer Theater
Various locations, 2021-present

Dan designed the set for the 2021, 2023, and 2025 Criminal Queerness Festival. 

​"Founded in 2019, this festival puts the spotlight on queer and trans plays from countries where queer art is criminalized or censored. This theater company has produced playwrights from Syria, Venezuela, Uganda, Kenya, Iraq, China, Pakistan, Tanzania, Egypt, Mexico, India and Lebanon, and this year focuses on queer artists from Ukraine and Eastern Europe. For their honorable work highlighting international queer and trans artists, the judges have awarded an Obie Theatre Grant to NATIONAL QUEER THEATER’s CRIMINAL QUEERNESS FESTIVAL."
 - Obie Award Theatre Grant in 2024

2021
This is not a memorized script, this is a well-rehearsed story
by Dima Mikhayel Matta
Directed by Em Weinstein

«when we write with ashes»
by Victor I. Cazares
Directed By Borna Barzin

Lighting design by Taylor Lilly
Costume design by Jules Peiperl
Sound design by M. Florian Staab
Photos by Antonio M. Rosario

2023
War and Play
By Danielle Levsky
Directed by SMJ
Photo by Lawrence Sumulong

The Division
by Andrew Kushnir
Directed by SRĐA
Photo by Sachyn Mital

Costume design by Jules Peiperl
Lighting design by Moneé Stamp
Sound design by Tani Kahn
Projections design by Hannah Tran

2025
Tomorrow Never Came
by Jedidiah Mugarura
Directed by Ogemdi Ude

What You are to Me
by Dena Igusti
Directed by Keng S. Meateanuwat

frikiNATION
by Krystal Ortiz
Music and Lyrics by EsKoria
Directed by Rula A.Muñoz

Lighting Design by Alejandro Fajardo
Sound Design by Jeremy Kadetsky
Costume Design by Jason Goodwin and Jasmine Canjura 
Media design by Gavin Strawnato
Photos by HanJie Chow